Subject: Re: Best way to install NetBSD
To: Mind <mindphunked@yahoo.com>
From: Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 12/12/2002 07:04:41
> Ok, So I've put my brand new 120Gig drive into my
> cobalt in the hope of making it into a very cool
> looking mass storage box.

i just did that with an 80G drive.  i dd'd the 4G drive that came with
the qube onto the 80G, increased the length of the 4th dos slice on the
disk with fdisk, and then created a new ~74G partition with disklabel in
the 4th slice.

wd0: 78167 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 160086528 sectors

8 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    410130    877905     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  870*- 1277*)
 b:    262710    615195       swap                      # (Cyl.  610*- 870*)
 d: 160086528         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 158815)
 e:    615194         1 Linux Ext2      0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 610*)
 f:   7133805   1288035     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1277*- 8354)
 g: 151664688   8421840     4.2BSD   1024  8192    86   # (Cyl. 8355 - 158815)

[mjl@polyprop mjl]$ cat /etc/fstab
# Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/wd0b       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/wd0a       /               ufs     rw,noatime      1       1
/dev/wd0e       /altroot        ext2fs  rw              2       2
/dev/wd0f       /usr            ufs     rw,noatime      2       2
/dev/wd0g       /files          ufs     rw,noatime      2       2